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Metro is actually short for “chemin de fer metropolitain” French for metropolitan = urban railway and it used to be referred to, in brochures and on some signs as “le metropolitain” even in my youth.
Now is the time to reshape our cities « Stephen Rees’s blog 2008
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Johannesburg metropolitain council, an energy from waste plant in
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"It is time we all recognised the reality of the fast-approaching new South Africa and our common, indivisible regional and metropolitain future."
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XIX, 517-522; PETIT, Acte synodal du patriarche Nicephore II sur les privileges du metropolitain de Trebizonde in Bulletin de l'institut arch. russe de Constantinople VIII, 163-171; Missiones catholica
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Malcolm Downing from the Bureau says it is unlikley any major metropolitain areas will be badly affected by today's wind and rain.
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Malcolm Downing from the Bureau says it is unlikley any major metropolitain areas will be badly affected by today's wind and rain.
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Malcolm Downing from the Bureau says it is unlikley any major metropolitain areas will be badly affected by today's wind and rain.
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We have a major metropolitain area that needs to be irrigated.
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